Is Apple Inc.(NASDAQ:AAPL) surreptitiously testing
betas of its next generation operating system for Macs, OS X 10.9?
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AppleInsider said in a report recently that it has
seen more than 30 total visits from machines listed as running the as-yet
unannounced new operating system from Apple.
"A handful of machines running Intel-based OS X
10.9 Macs have also been sighted elsewhere on the Web," the report said.
Such beta tests are not unknown in the tech world
where companies resort to a variety of means to gauge customer response as well
as to find to what kind of glitches the new operating systems are likely to
have.
According to Apple Insider, "While such
information can be faked, the growing number of appearances of systems claiming
to run OS X 10.9 could indicate that Apple is already testing early betas of
the next major update to its Mac operating system."
Apple usually upgrades its Mac operating system once a
year. The latest operating system OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion was released in July
this year.
For an upgrade to be available next year the company
needs to start testing its new version right away.
"It's currently unknown whether the next major
version of OS X, which remains unofficial and unnamed, will debut in the summer
of 2013, about a year after the launch of Mountain Lion," AppleInsider
said.
"OS X 10.8 got off to a strong start this year
for Apple, with 7 million upgrades sold in less than two months."
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